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Helena Goldwater

Profession
Course Leader, BA Fine Art
College
Central Saint Martins
Person Type
Teacher
Helena  Goldwater

Biography

I make performance art and paintings. My performances often last many hours, and my paintings can take months to complete. This dedication to process is a way of exploring how concepts can be developed over time to inhabit something ‘other’, questioning the positioning of subjectivity, and transforming the everyday into a devotional act.

My work has been shown at many galleries and festivals, nationally and internationally, including, Action: A provisional history of the 90s, MACBA: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; gut flora, MOCA, London; Nature Morte, Guildhall Art Gallery, London; 1st Venice International Performance Art Week, Italy; If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, de Appel, Amsterdam; and at the Tate Britain and Liverpool.

I also research and compile material on UK performance art histories of the 1970s and 1980s. I co-curated (with Rob La Frenais, Alex Eisenberg/Live Art Development Agency) Edge of an Era, an online resource about 1980s UK-based performance art, which also commissioned new works and programmed a series of events.

Photo: Monika Sobczak

Links

https://www.helenagoldwater.co.uk/